For what it's worth, I became interested in Mau Rakau about 40 years ago and did some training with a good club in Hastings (Hawkes Bay) maybe 35...
For boxing modifications, see http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2016/11/the-tactics-of-bartitsu-kickboxing/ For kicking modifications, see...
Ten Kate jumped to the wrong conclusion about Bartitsu being "nothing else than Shinden Fudo Ryu". He had seen two of Barton-Wright's articles...
Glad you asked ... Before the success of the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies, the tiny group of serious Bartitsu researchers and...
... and some comments from the winners: http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2017/02/comments-from-the-winners-of-the-bartitsu-sparring-video-contest/.
[IMG] http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2017/02/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-bartitsu-sparring-video-competition/ The winners of...
My point was that the style the OP was asking about - the bare-knuckle fighting of the London Prize Ring - isn't represented in the films you...
"Back then" is way too broad - the golden age of pugilism was during the early/mid-1800s, fought under London Prize Ring bare-knuckle rules, well...
There is a small but active community of people (almost all in the US and UK) who have been seriously training in old-school boxing (a.k.a....
You could argue this from both directions, but generally, yes, the haka is a direct challenge (warrior-to-warrior, or athlete-to-athlete these...
Bartitsu did (and does) use canes and umbrellas as weapons, but not sword-canes.
AFAIK there's one short training scene in the movie, but the Suffrajitsu graphic novels are all about the radical suffragettes' use of martial...
For what it's worth, I trained under Master Lee from the late-'70s to mid-'80s, earning my first dan WTF TKD black belt with the (then) New...
According to the website, most of the main events in the first issue are closely based on real history.
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